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Had a ride to the bee auction at Lincoln showground. Over 600 lots up for grabs and allot of gear sold in my opinion for peanuts. There were hives and boxes that went for less than if you bought the equivalent as kindling for your fire. As an example There were 3 old but solid top bar hives...

I managed to get hold of the Thornes Steam Generator for £8 in their sale last year. I have bought a metal roof cover but struggling to find a connector that I can screw onto / into the top once drilled. Anybody know what I need please. Photos of the Pipe may help.

I have a laying worker hive that has some capped drone brood but mainly multiple eggs in the cells. I plan to shake them out The frames are good condition. What are my options please to reuse the frames? Do I need to do anything to them before adding to other colonies or nucs?

I recently bought some national brood 3rds, I have filled where required and now in the process of table sawing in half to make 5 frame nuc boxes. So 3/4 of the box will be cedar with a 18mm plywood side My question is has anybody used yacht varnish to seal plywood before on new nucs or hives...

I have 2, 3 frame nucs in a home made wooden double box. Is it too late to move them to 5 or 6 frame polys and take a frame from some of my big hives to make them up? These are queens that i grafted late but doing well.

I have placed my 3 frame mating nucs out ready for when my virgins emerge in the incubator. I will move a couple and spread out more but for queens have I left enough space between the 8foot high hedge and the boxes? Its around 1.5 meters

I had great success in getting all 20 grafts accepted that I did on Saturday, the only trouble is looking at them now they are capped some are not full of royal jelly. Is it worth keeping them all or will I be making trouble for myself trying to mate some of these? If you zoom in on pics some...

Just been to check out apiary hives and all 6 alive and looking good. I have 14x12 hive that has a slab of fondantbon the top of frames. There is mouse droppings on yhe top of the bag and also fondant eaten by them. Whats best action at this time of the year please? I was planning to leave...

The summer gliw has been very slow here this year with only a 1 full super and a part super on each of my main hives. Mostly not sealed and it has stayed like this over the past month. With the nice weather I have not extracted yet BUT on my way home I passed a small field behind a hedge of...

so I grafted for the first time yesterday morning, was very nerve racking. 22 cells grafted into. I have just checked and 10 have taken, so happy with that for my first time with no practicing beforehand. 1 of the cells has been drawn allot more than the others after 24hours so has got me...

I have all the equipment and had planned to have a go at grafting this year but work got in the way. I now have some time and enough splits, nucs, hives to make up a packed nuc of nurse bees and capped brood to have a go. Am I too late to have a go at a couple of rounds of grafting? My plan is...

I have just been into one of my nucs to release a queen under an introduction cage for the last 5 days. Released fine and she's strolling around like she's been there years. I noticed where the brood hatched under the cage the whole lot is layed up with multiple eggs. Is this something normal...

I have new queend in nucs that are under introduction cages. My plans are to go back into nucs in 3 days and check for QCs but then how long before removing the cage to release the queens? What do others do please?

I have a couple of buckets of honey extracted beginning of May this year, It set like concrete and was a lovely pure white colour. I have had it in the warming cabinet now at 40 degrees for 24hours but it is still like custard thickness and not clear and runny. My plan was get it nice and runny...

question in the title really... Whats the best temperature 🌡 for a warming cabinet please? I understand too much heat is not good for honey so what is best temp and how long for to melt large bucket of concrete to mix and cream.

Hi I have a queen in a hive that is a pure pleasure to work with and very prolific l. I have done s couple of splits from her and her daughters are very nice bees also. To keep this queen laying for as long as possible do people just keep the queen's they breed from in normal hives or hive them...

I have a very strong brood + 1/2 hive that has had its rape honey taken off, extracted and 3 supers added back on that they are refilling at a rate. Was originally 4 supers. I would like to convert them to double brood but not lose any honey production or new box filled with honey. Is it just...

I intend to take off all OSR honey tomorrow from my hives. The bees are still very busy and there allot of hawthorn etc and the forecast looks good for a period. Question is I will add the wet supers back for the bees and I'm sure they will refill with more spring nectar. Do I need to remove...

I have 7 full supers on my 2 garden hives that will be mostly OSR honey as the 2 fields are less than 300 yards away. They are so full that I am struggling to lift the supers off the hives. The rape has now gone over with very little yellow left in the fields. I decided to take off today but...

In my 3 years I have never had 4 supers on a hive at this time of the year, I currently have 3 hives that are now filling their 4th The OSR is now losing its colour and I think by end of next week it will of turned green. Question is do I return all 4 empty supers to the hives or just maybe 2...